What do you think about the Bill O'Reilly controversy?

My colleague Pam Lundborg has a story in today's Post-Standard about the controversy over the remarks made by talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

Boyce Watkins, a Syracuse University business professor received death threats and hundreds of nasty e-mails after he called National Public Radio senior editor Juan Williams a "happy negro'' after Williams defended O'Reilly.

Watkins made his comments on CNN last week. Williams, a black journalist, defended O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor TV show, saying the talk show host's comments were not racist and that O'Reilly was trying to deflate the stereotypes.

The racial debate began when O'Reilly, on his radio show, said black people were well behaved at Harlem restaurant that he visited and that no one yelled, "m-fer, I want more ice tea.'' Many listeners called O'Reilly a racist.